German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, Ernst Haeckel, who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many biological terms, with his assistant Nicolaus von Miclucho-Maclay, in the Canary Islands (1866)

Ernst Haeckel and his assistant in the Canaries, 1866. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919),[1] also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

Ernst Haeckel and his assistant Nicolaus von Miclucho-Maclay, photographed in the Canary Islands in 1866. (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919),[1] an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista.

Peter Jackson, December 2, 1889. Born in 1860 in St Croix, then the Danish West Indies, Jackson was a boxing champion who spent long periods of time touring Europe. In England, he staged the famous fight against Jem Smith at the Pelican Club in 1889. In 1888 he claimed the title of Australian heavyweight champion

The Evolution of Women's Workwear - There are a few problems with this (like the obvious descriptions of what everyone is wearing), but over all the images are great and they provide an interesting look at the evolution of fashion in a specific type of setting.

The shoemaker (late 19th century). Jan Matzeliger, born in 1852, immigrated to the US "at age 18 and went to work in a shoe factory in Philadelphia. Shoes then were hand made, a slow tedious process. Jan Matzeliger helped revolutionize the shoe industry by developing a shoe lasting machine that would attach the sole to the shoe in one minute."

SHoe shop late 19th century by Steve Heimerle, via Flickr

The shoemaker (late 19th century). Vintage, photo, sapira, working men and woman, history.

The shoemaker (late 19th century). Custom shoes, how great would that be?

The Victorian Era (1837 - 1901) The reign of Queen Victoria, the longest ruling monarch in British history. Her long reign and the industrial revolution made fashion change drastically several times

Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel) (1819-1861). A mourning ring after the death of Albert that Victoria had made and wore for the rest of her life.

Mourning ring showing a photograph of Prince Albert. This ring was commissioned and worn by Queen Victoria who sent the Victorian art of mourning into overdrive. Her intense and all-consuming grief over the loss of her beloved Albert lasted until the end of her life.

Princess Alexandra of Denmark, 1884 (she married Bertie, Prince of Wales, he became King Edward VI of Great Britain & she became Queen Alexandra of Great Britain). She was a beautiful and fashionable woman of the time.

Workers at the Tredegar Ironworks. Women were forbidden to go down the mines but could be employed in heavy industry on the pit face. Tinted photo. Note jewelry, sleeve detail, but heavily used aprons. by W Clayton of Tredegar, Wales, 1865. nm